TIM: But there are tons of other objects that keep popping up in the far regions of the solar system! An animation shows Earth from outer space, with Moby's arms extending around the planet in a giant hug. "},"game":{"type":"game","instructions":"Code a sorting game to show what you know about the solar system. In the animation, an insert shows a close-up of the red spot. An image is shown of a gray planet, labeled Eris, against a night sky. An animation shows Pluto rotating in space. An image shows chunks of material orbiting in the Kuiper Belt. Watch it again, this time using the discussion prompts. TIM: On its surface, there's a permanent storm, called the Great Red Spot. TIM: Saturn is another gas giant, with more than 45 moons orbiting it. It is depicted as covered by clouds. Two inserts appear. TIM: Other large Kuiper bodies include Orcus, Quaoar, and Varuna. An animation shows gas suspended in the starry universe. A diagram shows the terminal shock as an orange circle with the sun and the planets of the solar system, including Earth, in the center of it. The sun can be seen in the background. 19992023 BrainPOP. The diagram expands to show a third planet and its orbit to the right of the previously shown two planets. Atoms began fusing together in a nuclear reaction that continues to this day. It's tilted so that it looks like its lying on its side! TIM: Yeah, you'd definitely melt on Venus. There's quite a variety of stuff in the solar system, right? Another animation shows floating objects coming together and forming the planet Jupiter. An animation shows a cloud of dust and debris circling the sun. Another yellow arrow labeled interstellar wind is added to extend from the Oort cloud to the line labeled heliopause.. As each condition is mentioned, four inserts show different parts of Earth: an ocean; buildings amongst trees; people; and animals. TIM: Thats where the solar wind gets stopped in its tracks by particles from the rest of outer space! Learn how you can get access to hundreds of topic-specific coding projects. The first were discovered hundreds of years ago by Galileo Galilei. It was named after the Roman god of the sea maybe because it's so blue! An animation first shows the sun and several other planets surrounded by a ring of gray specks, and then zooms out to show the entire solar system, represented by light purple dots arranged in a spherical pattern against a night sky. Tim is wearing a T-shirt with a drawing of planets in the center. The added planet has a question mark placed in the middle of it. An animation shows Venus, with gassy yellow and orange swirls covering its surface. The animation shows a drawing of a circle of rocks around the sun and planets at the top. TIM: Hey Moby, I think I see aliens. Another view shows clumps spinning around a large central clump. Terms of Use; Privacy; Trademarks and Copyrights; Accessibility; Do Not Sell My Personal Information TIM: Mercury is the closest planet to the sun. 1999-2023 BrainPOP. The surface is divided into shaded areas. Standard and Scientific Notation/Transcript. Searching.. educators resources search ELL topics. He hugs the ground and has a large grin on his robotic face. TIM: Scientists say scattered disc objects are well, Kuiper belt rejects! TIM: The four outer planets are really far from the sun, so they're much colder. Try searching your Timeline, or return to the homepage. Two inserts appear and show the rocky surface. 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TIM: The Kuiper belt is a ring of icy debris orbiting the sun beyond Neptune. It makes an intermittent beeping sound that fades as the spacecraft moves farther and farther away. TIM: Man, I wonder what it must feel like to be so far from home An animation shows Tim and Moby at their camp site in the middle of dark woods. Watch it again, this time using the discussion prompts. All rights reserved. An animation shows a man, Tim, and a robot, Moby, at a campsite. TIM: The dense, carbon dioxide atmosphere on Venus traps so much heat, the surface can get up to over 450 degrees Celsius. Filed as: Discussion Prompts, Solar System An image shows a night sky and stars through a pair of binoculars. TIM: Sure. The one on the left shows the Pioneer 10 spacecraft and the one on the right shows the Pioneer 11 spacecraft. ","What is in the inner Solar System? 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An animation shows Earth rotating, with the moon orbiting around it. Please enable JavaScript on your browser. All of the parts of the diagram are labeled and a horizontal red arrow labeled gravity goes through the image and points from the Oort cloud to the sun. An animation shows the red mountain towering over the smaller Mount Everest. TIM: There's no water on Mercury and there's very little atmosphere. An animation shows the four outer planets, then zooms in to show Jupiter encircled by a narrow ring. It was named after the Roman god of the sea, probably because its so blue. TIM: The moon is the sixth planet in the sky, next to the sun between Mars and the Earth. The sun is on the left of the screen, planets and Kuiper belt to the right of it, followed by the scattered disc and the Oort cloud to the far right of the screen. TIM: No, you couldn't go thereyou'd probably either melt or freeze. A diagram shows two planets and their orbits. An animation keeps extending the arrow from Neptune until no planets are visible. An animation shows a large number of rocks floating in space. Two images are displayed next to each other against a night sky. In the animation, Moby looks up and then looks down. TIM: It also has at least three moons: Charon, Hydra, and Nix! Butterflies Camouflage Classifying animals Fish Food chain Frogs Hibernation Insects Living and nonliving things Mammals Migration Forests Parts of a plant Plant . (Compare/contrast; Draw conclusions), Look at the four related movies at the bottom of the page. TIM: But scientists are pretty sure that both of the Voyager probes have passed the termination shock, and are closing in on the heliopause. 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"},"game":{"type":"game","instructions":"Code a sorting game to show what you know about the solar system. The image of the sun, the planets, the Kuiper belt, and the scattered disc is shown again. That means lots of liquid water, which all life depends on. Gravity drew this stuff together into clumps, eventually forming the sun and the surrounding planets. "},"game":{"type":"game","instructions":"Code a sorting game to show what you know about the solar system. Moby thinks and then extends his arms. TIM: The four inner planets are rocky, relatively warm, and have craters. The screen is split in half vertically and displays Sedna on the left and Mars, significantly bigger and lighter in color than Sedna, on the right. All rights reserved. The animation focuses on the swirling red storm on Jupiter's surface. Asteroids are pieces of rock centimeters to hundreds of kilometers wide. TIM: Well well, how do you know? That's why the inner planets formed mostly out of rocky material. What's your favorite thing out there? TIM: No, you couldn't go there you'd probably either melt or freeze! The smaller planet is labeled Pluto.. The animation shows a drawing of the planets traveling along circles around the sun. Moby first looks up, then blinks and looks back down. One shows a plain with a hot sun blazing down on it. "},"story":{"type":"story","instructions":"Code a conversation to show what you know about the solar system. TIM: I know. TIM: The Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud are areas in the far regions of the solar system where small bodies like comets are thought to originate. An animation shows the spacecraft moving away from the camera into outer space until it eventually disappears. ","joke_text_2":"Give me a ring sometime! At the end of the episode, Moby says he knows what it's like out there and after questioned by Tim, hypnotizes him. TIM: Are there are there others like you? "},"story":{"type":"story","instructions":"Code a conversation to show what you know about the solar system. It likely had oceans and rivers, and its atmosphere contained more heat-trapping gases. ","Is Pluto a planet? TIM: Over the course of millions of years, gravity pulled the elements of this dust cloud closer and closer together until clumps began to form. Use strategy to up your points! The animation zooms in to Venus' surface. Tim stops looking at the stars and takes the paper from Moby. Mars has two moons and the tallest mountain in the solar system called Olympus Mons. TIM: The four inner planets are much smaller than the four outer ones. Contents 1 Summary 2 Appearances 3 Transcript 4 Quiz 5 FYI Comic 6 Gallery Summary While scanning the night sky with a pair of binoculars, Tim is interrupted by Moby, giving him a letter asking if there is a 'Planet X'. Solar System Discussion Prompts and Pause Points, What do you think youll learn about the solar system in this movie? An animation shows Jupiter rotating in space and the sun in the background. This animated Science resource page with lesson plans and teaching tips, for Kindergarten to 3rd grade students teaches about the Sun, moons, and planets that make up our Solar System. But for us, it's the most important one around. 19992023 BrainPOP. (Identify cause/effect), Timecode 2:28: What can you infer about the temperature on Mars compared to Earth? TIM: It also has a permanent storm on its surface called the Great Red Spot, which is way bigger than the entire Earth! Tim addresses the camera. An image of an astronaut walking on the moon is displayed on the screen, and then an image of a spacecraft against a night sky is added to the right of it. An animation shows Mercury rotating. TIM: Its by far the most distant known region of the solar system. The animation shows objects being pulled into the center of the cloud, forming clumps. TIM: Plutos moons, Charon, Hydra, and Nix, are also Kuiper belt objects. TIM: Dear Tim and Moby, can you tell me all about the solar system? Already have an individual account with Creative Coding? They're called the Galilean Moons, and they're almost like little planets. In the animation, the view changes to show Charon, Hydra, and Nix in orbit above Pluto. Most of them are concentrated in the Asteroid Belt, between Mars and Jupiter. The scene changes back to Tim lying in the sleeping bag, holding the binoculars and the letter. Then show the movie once through without pausing. Tim is holding a star chart. TIM: That means it traps the sun's heat. TIM: By the way, Pluto isnt the only dwarf planet. TIM: Yeah, theyve been traveling in space for about 35 years now! 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"},"comic":{"type":"comic","instructions":"Create a comic about the solar system. The first is labeled Orcus, the second is labeled Quaoar, and the third, the smallest one, is labeled Varuna.. An animation shows the gas and clumps of matter swirling around a bright sphere. An animation shows the pale yellow planet encircled by large rings. TIM: Others became big balls of mostly gas called gas giants, like Jupiter. The spherical object is labeled Oort cloud.. Lightning from the yellow gas strikes the red, rocky ground. An animation shows light blue and white objects that resemble crumbled sheets of paper moving across a night sky. An image shows a big, brown planet labeled Pluto, a smaller, purple moon labeled. As the sides are mentioned, two inserts appear. TIM: Well, not really. A cross-section of the planet shows that its core is much larger than Earth. Try your hand at computer programming with Creative Coding! Text reads: The Mysteries of Life with Tim and Moby. The spiraling pattern transfixes Tim and he falls asleep as Moby looks at the night skies through the binoculars. An animation shows Tim peering into a telescope pointed at the night sky. "}},"relative_path":"\/science\/space\/solarsystem\/creativecoding\/","small_screen_compatible":"","requires_flash":"","description":{"sound":"","text":""}}. You probably know Saturn by its amazing set of rings. The biggest was in the center, and everything else began to spin around it. Its got perfect conditions for plants and animals: not too hot, not too cold. It became the sun, and its energy pushed away any nearby gas. The one on the left shows the Voyager 1 spacecraft and the one on the right shows the Voyager 2 spacecraft. In the animation, the view of the asteroids moves out of view and is replaced by a drawing of Pluto. It's actually just a medium-sized star, but for us it's the most important star there is. The animation shows Tim and Moby standing with a starry sky in the background. 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